riot act

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• March 2. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  Riot Act — noun — english

  a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them

• March 2. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  riot act — noun — english

  a vigorous reprimand; "I read him the riot act"